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» 17-06-18, 22:36

Band scores its biggest week for a rock album in four years, sets record as the group with the most consecutive No. 1-debuting studio albums.

Dave Matthews Band notches its seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as Come Tomorrow launches atop the tally. The set, which was released on June 8 via Bama Rags/RCA Records, earned 292,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 14, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 285,000 were in traditional album sales — the biggest sales week for a rock album in over four years.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new June 23-dated chart (where Dave Matthews Band debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard's websites on Tuesday, June 19.

Here are some of the highlights of Come Tomorrow’s big No. 1 debut:

Record-Breaking No. 1 Debut: Come Tomorrow is Dave Matthews Band’s seventh straight studio album to debut at No. 1 — making them the only group to see seven consecutive studio albums bow at No. 1. The band’s hot streak dates back to 1998, when Before These Crowded Streets started at No. 1 — marking the group’s first leader. (Dave Matthews Band has charted many other non-studio albums since 1998 that did not go to No. 1, including a greatest hits package and a bevy of live releases.)

Biggest Week for a Rock Album in Over Four Years: Come Tomorrow starts with the largest week for a rock album in overall units since the Billboard 200 transitioned to a consumption units-ranked list in late 2014. Further, the album scores the biggest sales week for a rock release in more than four years — since Coldplay’s Ghost Stories bowed with 383,000 copies sold (chart dated June 7, 2014). Come Tomorrow’s big first week was bolstered by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with the group’s tour that began on May 18.

Biggest Sales Week of 2018: Come Tomorrow easily notches the biggest sales week for an album in 2018, with 285,000 copies sold. It surpasses the previous high-water mark of the year, set when Justin Timberlake's Man of the Woods started with 242,000 copies sold (Feb. 17-dated chart). The last album to sell more in a week before Come Tomorrow was Taylor Swift's reputation., when it bowed with 1.2 million (chart dated Dec. 2, 2017).

Largest Overall Week for a Group Since 2015: No group has logged a week as big as Dave Matthews Band with Come Tomorrow in total units since One Direction’s Made in the A.M. started at No. 2 with 459,000 units on the Dec. 5, 2015-dated chart.

Fourth-Largest Overall Week of 2018: Only three albums have tallied bigger weeks in 2018, and all were accomplished in their opening frames: Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys (461,000 units; May 12), J. Cole’s KOD (397,000; May 5) and Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods (293,000).

News about the rest of the new top 10 is scheduled to be announced later today (June 17).

» 18-06-18, 18:51

Drake passes Michael Jackson among artists with the most weeks at the Hot 100's summit.
Drake's "Nice for What" returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, rising from No. 2, for a seventh total week on top. With his latest frame in the lead, Drake passes Michael Jackson for the second-most career weeks logged at No. 1 among solo males (38 vs. 37) in the chart's 59-year history, with the pair trailing only Usher (47 weeks) for the lead in the category.

Meanwhile, Juice WRLD's "Lucid Dreams" crowns the Streaming Songs survey, where it lifts 2-1, as it pushes 9-6 on the Hot 100.

Let's run down the top 10 of the Hot 100 (dated June 23), which blends all-genre streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (June 19).

"Nice," released on Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records, revisits the Hot 100's top spot, as it rises 4-3 on Streaming Songs (31.6 million U.S. streams, down 8 percent, in the week ending June 14, according to Nielsen Music), after leading the list for four weeks; 6-4 on Radio Songs (87.5 million in audience in the week ending June 17), becoming Drake's 11th top five hit on the tally; and 10-7 on Digital Song Sales (20,000 downloads sold, down 3 percent, in the week ending June 14), after spending a week at No. 1.

Drake earns his 38th cumulative week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, totaled by his five No. 1s; he previously led as featured on Rihanna's "What's My Name? (one week, 2010) and "Work" (nine weeks, 2016) and with his own "One Dance," featuring WizKid and Kyla (10 weeks, 2016), and "God's Plan" (11 weeks, 2018).

Drake passes Michael Jackson for the second-most weeks spent at No. 1 among solo males, after Usher. Among all artists, Drake now owns a solo share of seventh place:

(With featured billings an established element of R&B/hip-hop, Drake has earned 28 of his 38 weeks atop the Hot 100 in a lead role and 10 as a featured artist. Usher has posted all 47 of his weeks at No. 1, from nine No. 1s, as a lead, or co-lead, artist, while Jackson was billed as a lead or co-lead for all 37 of his weeks at the summit, via 13 toppers; additionally, The Jackson 5, with Jackson as a member, tallied 10 weeks at No. 1 thanks to their four leaders, all in 1970.)

Further, "Nice" logs its third stint atop the Hot 100. It debuted atop the April 21-dated chart and spent its first four weeks at No. 1; dipped to No. 2 for two weeks; returned for two more frames on top; and dropped to No. 2 a week ago. "Nice" is the first song to experience three separate Hot 100 coronations since The Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face," which notched its three weeks at No. 1 in 2015 nonconsecutively (Aug. 22, Sept. 12 and Sept. 26).

"Nice" concurrently adds a seventh week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Post Malone's "Psycho," featuring Ty Dolla $ign, descends to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after its sole week at the summit. It holds at No. 2 on Radio Songs (98.6 million, essentially even week-over-week) and Digital Song Sales (30,000, down 19 percent) and rises 10-7 on Streaming Songs (26.9 million, down 11 percent).

Still, "Psycho" spends a second week at No. 1 on the Songs of the Summer chart, which measures the top cumulative performing titles on the Hot 100 between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Rounding out the Hot 100's top five, Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin's "I Like It" keep at its No. 3 peak; Drake's "God's Plan" lifts 5-4; and Maroon 5's "Girls Like You," featuring Cardi B, slips to No. 5 from its No. 4 high, while adding top Airplay Gainer honors for a second consecutive week, as it bounds onto Radio Songs at No. 36 (32.1 million, up 93 percent).

Juice WRLD's "Lucid Dreams" climbs 9-6 on Hot 100, as it becomes his first No. 1 on Streaming Songs (2-1), up 8 percent to 38.8 million U.S. streams. (A data processing error resulted in incorrect earlier streaming figures for the title; thus, its streaming sum is lower than forecast last week, when it appeared that the song was challenging for No. 1 on the Hot 100.) The track concurrently climbs 48-26 on Digital Song Sales (13,000, up 38 percent).

"Dreams" is the breakthrough hit for the 19-year-old Chicago rapper (born Jared Higgins), who gained early attention on SoundCloud, where he began posting songs in 2015, and recently signed with Interscope Records.

Ella Mai's first Hot 100 top 10, "Boo'd Up," backtracks to No. 7 from its No. 6 high, while leading the Hot R&B Songs chart for a fifth week, and Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey's "The Middle" reverses course on the Hot 100, rising 10-8 after reaching its No. 5 peak, as it leads Radio Songs for a sixth week (114.1 million, down 1 percent) and Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 20th frame.

Ariana Grande's "No Tears Left to Cry" returns to the Hot 100's top 10, lifting 13-9, after debuting at its No. 3 peak (on the May 5-dated chart), and Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line's No. 2-peaking "Meant to Be" likewise revisits the top tier (12-10), while topping Hot Country Songs for a 29th week, extending the longest reign for a song by a duo or group in the chart's 59-year history.

Find out more Hot 100 news in the weekly "Hot 100 Chart Moves" column and by listening (and subscribing) to Billboard's Chart Beat Podcast and Pop Shop Podcast. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (June 19), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.

» 18-06-18, 20:08

As previously reported, Dave Matthews Band swoops in at No. 1 on the new Billboard 200 albums chart with the group’s seventh leader, Come Tomorrow. The set earned 292,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 14, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 285,000 were in traditional album sales -- the biggest sales week for an album in 2018.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new June 23-dated chart (where Dave Matthews Band debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard's websites on Tuesday, June 19.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Kids See Ghosts’ self-titled album debuts with 142,000 units, with 79,000 of that sum in traditional album sales. Kids See Ghosts is the duo project from Kanye West and Kid Cudi. The set is the second of a string of weekly releases from West’s G.O.O.D. Music label, following his own chart-topping ye, which falls to No. 5 in its second week (74,000 units; down 65 percent).

Country star Dierks Bentley bows at No. 3 with The Mountain (102,000 units; 94,000 in traditional album sales), marking Bentley’s ninth top 10 and his best sales week ever. His previous biggest sales frame was scored with the debut week of his last studio set, Black, in 2016, when it began with 88,000 sold.

The Mountain also logs the third-biggest overall week, in units, for a country album in 2018. The only larger overall frames scored by country sets this year have been the starting weeks of Jason Aldean’s Rearview Town (183,000 units) and Keith Urban’s Graffiti U (145,000 units). All three sets were enhanced by sales generated by a concert ticket/album sale redemption program.